Bethersden Kent Family History Guide
Bethersden is an Ancient Parish in the county of Kent.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1556
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1563
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Hothfield
- Shadoxhurst
- High Halden
- Pluckley
- Smarden
- Great Chart
- Woodchurch
- Little Chart
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BETHERSDEN, a village and a parish in West Ashford district, Kent. The village stands 2 miles S of Pluckley r. station, and 5 ½ WSW of Ashford; and has a post office under Staplehurst, and a fair on 31 July.
The parish comprises 6,345 acres. Real property, £5,127. Pop., 1,124. Houses, 237. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to the Grensteads; and passed to the Lovelaces. A marble here, now little worked, and consisting almost wholly of minute freshwater shells, was formerly in great request for monumental sculptures and the decoration of cathedrals.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £165. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is of Tudor date, and in good condition.
There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and an education charity.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- Civil Registration District: West Ashford
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
- Diocese: Canterbury
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1864 – Charing, Post-1863 – West Charing
- Poor Law Union: West Ashford
- Hundred: Chart and Longbridge
- Province: Canterbury